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TIL The Keaton parents on 'Family Ties' (actors Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross) share the same birthday (June, 21, 1947)

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yQAba TIL that numbats are insectivorous marsupials native to Western Australia. They mainly eat termites. Unlike most marsupials, numbats don’t have pouches. Instead, their young clamp onto teats on the mother’s belly and stay there for five months. They can have up to 4 young at once.
Lk9pr TIL King Henry VIII was such a big fan of codpieces (a type of flap or pouch protruding from a man's trousers) that there used to be a wooden statue of him at the Tower of London with a secret mechanism in the floor. When you stepped on the right spot, the royal codpiece would swing forth.
VMLR0 TIL about the letter Thorn in English that made the Th sound, and how when you see a sign that says “Ye Old Tavern” the Y in Ye is actually shorthand for Thorn so all of those signs actually say “THE Old Tavern”
K7OR TIL that Pablo Picasso carried a revolver loaded with blanks, which he would shot at people who asked about the meaning of his paintings.
LkOod TIL a possible origin of the name Cerberus (the multi-headed dog of the Greek god Hades) is the Proto-Indo-European word k̑érberos, meaning "spotted". Hades' dog might have literally been named "Spot".